Weather strip



Patented Nov. 9, 192%.

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WEATHER STRIP.

Application filed. September 8. 1925. Serial No. 55,112.

This invention relates to weather strips for doors, and has for an object the provi sion of novel means for guarding the space between the bottom of the door and the carpet strip against circulation of air into a closure or house under the door.

It is an object of this invention to provide means carried by the door and stationary means with relation to which the door moves, whereby the means carried by the door is operated to close the opening or space between the door and the carpet strip.

It is a further object of this invention to produce a weather strip of the character indicated which will be automatic in its opera tion in that the guarding strip isheld elevated above the lower edge of the door in order that it will not encounter obstructions as the door is opened, and it is then moved to operative position when the door is closed.

It is a still further object of this invention to produce a device of the character in dicated which will be comparatively inexpensive and of neat appearance; and furthermore of a construction which can be readily installed. 7

With the foregoing and other objects in view, the invention consists in the details of construction, and in the arrangement and combination of parts to be hereinafter more fully set forth and claimed.

In describing the invention in detail, reference will be had to the accompanying drawings forming part of this application wherein like characters denote correspondingparts in the several views, and in which Figure 1 illustrates a view in elevation of a fragment of a door with a device embodying the invention applied thereto;

Figure 2 illustrates a sectional view on the line 2-2 not fully of Fig. 1;

Figure 3 illustrates a similar view with the guarding strip in operative position;

Figure 1 illustrates a sectional view on the line H of Fig. 1; and

Figure 5 illustrates an enlarged detail view of the strip mounting.

In these drawings 10 denotes a conventional type of door and 11 a carpet strip with relation to which the door is movable and over which it is suspended when the door is closed. A sheathing or housing 12 which may be of the general construction and outline as shown is supported on the door by fastenings 13, such as screws or the like, which may extend through a flange 14 of the housing, and as shown, the lower edge of the housing terminates near the lower edge of the door. A rod 15 may be supported at its ends by brackets in the nature of screw eyes 16 or the like, and the rod,

in the present embodiment of the invention,

constitutes a support on which the apertured cars 17 of the weather strip or guard plate 18 are oscillatable so that the said weather strip or guard plate, which will be hereafter referred to as a weather strip, may swing from the horizontal position in which it is illustrated in Fig. 2 to the approximately vertical position in which it is illustrated in Fig. 3.

A spring 19, as here illustrated, encircles a portion of the rod 15 and it has one end 20 anchored in the door, whereas its opposite end 21 underlies the weather strip and serves to hold it normally in approximately horizontal position against the lower edge of the housing.

There is a cleat or strip 22 located and anchored on the support of the carpet strip in spaced relation to the edge 23 of the carpet strip toward which the door moves in closing, but beyond which it does not move, and preferably the edge of the cleat facing the carpet strip is beveled as shown at 2 1 to form a camming surface which is engaged by the edge of the weather strip in order that the said weather strip may be caused to swing downwardly edgewise into the space between the carpet strip and the cleat. It is shown in the drawing that the cleat is slightly higher than the carpet strip and it is therefore in the path of travel of the weather strip if the door is moved or swung in the direction of the arrow A (Fig. 2).

Figure 3 illustrates the relation of parts when the weather strip is seated in the space between the carpet strip and the cleat, and

the said weather strip forms a seal which will prevent the passage of air into the space bet-ween the door and the carpet strip.

I claim:

In a weather strip for doors, screw eyes; carried by the outer side of a door adjacentopposite end of said spring engaging with the under side of the weather strip, a housing attached to the outer side of the door and projecting therefrom, said housing having vertical end portions in line with the rod, said lower edges of the end portions of the housing being located above the lower edge of the door, and means located beyond the door sill and extending above the plane thereof and beyond its outer edge and so positioned that the weather strip will engage and be moved downwardly thereby when the door is brought to a closed position.

CHRISTIAN WENRICH. 

